Moe Lane

Shockingly, while it’s in Japan – of course – it’s not of Japan:

It’s actually French.

That would have been my second guess.

Moe Lane

A colleague of mine passed this link along, with an instruction not to drink beverages around it.

He was quite right.

I would quibble with the results here: it implies that the notion that we’ve already done too much already to fix the economy isn’t a legitimate answer. Still, this report will not be welcome news for the administration:

52% Worry Government Will Do Too Much to Fix Economy

[snip]

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 52% of the nation’s Likely Voters now worry that the government will do too much. That’s up from 50% a month ago and 43% in mid-February. It’s the highest level of concern measured since Barack Obama was elected president.

The number who worry that the government will do too little has fallen sharply to 31%. That’s down nine points from 40% a month ago and 12 points from 43% two months ago.

…which is only fitting. When the economy went into a tailspin last fall, the current administration presented itself as the best choice to repair our financial problems. When they were elected, the expectation was that they would actually engage in activities that would repair our financial problems, and in a nonpartisan, inclusive manner. Instead, we got: Never Waste A Crisis. I Won. The Democratic Party’s Pork Wish List. It’s Not Our Fault. Tax Hikes On The Lower Class*. The Great Expanding Budget Deficit. Let’s Repeat That Last One Again.  One More Time, So That It Sinks In. (more…)

For some reason, people keep sending me links to things like this: Zombie Haiku: Good Poetry For Your…Brains.  I really wish I knew why they did that… hold on, let me just get this down:

Strange fruit floats downstream
As sirens die in Gray dawn -
The tide lurches in.

…anyway, it’s weird, and I’m not sure why anybody would have this impression of me – gimme a second, here:

The naginata:
Not so clumsy as shotgun -
Plus, decapitates.

…because, as all men know, I am really a highly prosaic sort of individual…

Ninja or kung fu?
PPZ’s* class struggle.
Austen would have laughed.

OK, OK, fine.

Moe Lane

*I have gotten my mother to read that book.

I have to agree with Brother Pejman and Sister Academic Elephant: Bluftooni nailed this one cold.

But that’s OK: you can’t actually make grown-up stop doing something simply by making crude sexual jokes about them. You can thoroughly tick them off, so let me just thank the media for that as we move on to the next step of turning 600K into a few million. The discussion on that has already started…

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

Nice to see that they’re still performing the old stuff:

I’ve always said that it’s important that the young people not lose sight of their heritage.

Moe Lane

PS: H/T as soon as I determine that the person who forwarded me this wants one.

Moonlight Sonata, Ludwig von Beethoven

We remove Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance – Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! from the list and replace it with The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress: it was almost going to be Escape from Hell, but this update reminded me of the Heinlein book, which is easily one of my top twenty favorites.

(Via @IMAO_) Liber Ex Machina is quite right when it notes that “the pinnacle of internet literature is writing something more-or-less free of typos or bad punctuation.” For a given value of ‘quite right,’ at least. For a given value of ‘not even remotely right,’ check out… this.

I can’t make myself post to it directly.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

[UPDATE]: Welcome, Instapundit readers.

Sight unseen – apparently, The Right Scoop’s server’s getting hammered right now – I’m going to guess that “What happened to Jeanine Garofalo?” (Glenn’s question) was “six years of constant, unremitting hate.” Oh, hey, Brother Caleb covered it, so we can see the video:

Yup.  Six years of constant, unremitting hate.

See, this is why I never touch the stuff.  Not to ubergeek on anyone, but as Diane Duane noted once, your mom was right: your face will freeze like that if you keep that sour look on your face.

Crossposted to RedState.

It’s a Dune reference.  Chill.

(H/T: Fark) Anyway, there’s an entire section of society out there, and it’s dedicated to a war to the knife over a font:

Typeface Inspired by Comic Books Has Become a Font of Ill Will

[pause]

You just know that the editor insisted on the word ‘font’ being in the title.

Vincent Connare designed the ubiquitous, bubbly Comic Sans typeface, but he sympathizes with the world-wide movement to ban it.

Mr. Connare has looked on, alternately amused and mortified, as Comic Sans has spread from a software project at Microsoft Corp. 15 years ago to grade-school fliers and holiday newsletters, Disney ads and Beanie Baby tags, business emails, street signs, Bibles, porn sites, gravestones and hospital posters about bowel cancer.

The font, a casual script designed to look like comic-book lettering, is the bane of graphic designers, other aesthetes and Internet geeks. It is a punch line: “Comic Sans walks into a bar, bartender says, ‘We don’t serve your type.’” On social-messaging site Twitter, complaints about the font pop up every minute or two. An online comic strip shows a gang kicking and swearing at Mr. Connare.

That would be Achewood.

Personally, I don’t see overmuch what the fuss is about, but there certainly seems to be a bit of one over all of this.  Just in case you were thinking that the political stuff got all the obsession in the blogosphere.

Sorry, but these were too good not to mention.

First, I suppose that this was inevitable. “This” being Pride and Predator:

Pride and Predator to give Jane Austen an extreme makeover

The new film from Elton John’s Rocket Pictures will have the seven-foot extraterrestrial give the characters from Pride and Prejudice something more immediate to worry about than making advantageous marriages

…which is actually interesting, because of that scene from Predator 2 where Danny Glover’s character is given a black powder revolver as a sign of respect by the head Predator.

(pause)

We will pretend that I did not just write that, OK?

Anyway, moving on: fresh from the success of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies the author has a new project going. Its title? “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.” Don’t laugh: Seth Grahame-Smith is getting half a million to write the blessed thing. The Cinematical author in the previous link is appalled, but I personally think that it’s long past since time that my target reader demographic got pandered to a little…

Moe Lane

PS: Some ‘suggested’ examples from the Cinematical link:

• William Shakespeare: Necromancer? Sounds like fun; you could go all Prospero, or maybe A Midsummer Tempest. Get Neil Gaiman to write it. Hell, he’s probably writing it now.
• William Wallace Versus the Werewolves? “I’m seeing it as Braveheart meets Wolfen! Blue fur and claymores! The kids will love the action figures!” Plus: “FREEDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!”
• The Tudors as Voodoo Priests? No, no, no. Voodoo pirate priests. Tim Powers went to town on this with On Stranger Tides; and believe me, by about Wife #3 it’s not entirely unbelievable that Henry VIII might have been ready to try… unconventional… methods for acquiring an heir.

So I’m missing what the problem is, here.